Dataset Details
| Operators: |
| Spire |
| Date of Launch: |
| 3 August 2013 |
| Mission Status: |
| Operating Nominally |
| Orbit Height: |
| ~500 km |
ESA and Spire are pleased to announce the opportunity to freely access, up to March 2019, through the Third Party Mission program, 6 different samples of global Spire satellite data under the data familiarization phase of ESA Earthnet activities.
The data collected by Spire has a diverse range of applications, from analysis of global trade patterns and commodity flows to aircraft routing to weather forecasting. The data also provides interesting research opportunities on topics as varied as ocean currents and GNSS-based planetary boundary layer height.
ESA promotes this opportunity as a data familiarization phase before the potential formal integration into the Third Party Mission programme of the ESA Earthnet activities.
Spire is making available a sample of global data in a 24-hour period. Possible applications for the full data sets include:
|
Data Set |
Applications |
|
Automatic Identification System (AIS) |
Supply chain analysis, commodity trading, identification of illegal fishing or dark targets, ship route and fuel use optimization, analysis of global trade patterns, anti-piracy, autonomous vessel software, ocean currents |
|
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) |
Fleet management, ICAO regulatory compliance, route optimization, predictive maintenance |
|
Total Electron Content (TEC) |
Ionospheric modelling |
|
Ionospheric Scintillation Indices |
GNSS position error, earthquake precursor detection |
|
GNSS Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) |
Weather forecasting, turbulence detection, detection and monitoring of volcanic clouds, estimating planetary boundary layer height |
|
Magnetometer Data |
Earthquake precursor detection, building magnetosphere models |
- Sample data for each data type